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I thought the rights of next to kin were pretty generally recognized. Joel Send a noteboard - 13/01/2011 09:54:39 PM
If you start a fight in a bar and break someone's arm it is criminal because you've just committed a trespass against an individual. A corpse is not an individual. It WAS an individual, but it's just a big sack of meat and bones that is slowly decomposing.

There is no criminal charge corresponding to intentional infliction of emotional distress in most situations (one exception is menacing).

Hence they can do things like claim the deceased personal effects and inherit their property. It seems odd to think the coroner commits a crime if he swipes Aunt Tillys TV when he comes to collect her, but not if he slips her something just as stiff as she it.

You're the lawyer, not I, so I'm not going to presume to say I know your profession better, but, whether or not that's the way it is, it doesn't seem the way it SHOULD be. Of course, you know as well as I that how things should be is a lot less relevant to the law than most people probably think it is.
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No and yes, because of the issue of consent. Joel - 12/01/2011 07:11:31 PM 383 Views
Only people can provide consent. Corpses are not people, just rotting meat. *NM* Tom - 12/01/2011 08:40:02 PM 170 Views
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